Bangladesh

📖 In short

Bangladesh is a Muslim country in South Asia, mostly low green plains crossed by many big rivers. Its capital is Dhaka, and it's one of the most densely populated countries in the world.

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Bangladesh's capital is Dhaka.
Bangladesh separated from Pakistan in 1971.
The official language is Bengali, and the currency is the taka.
The Bengal tiger is Bangladesh's national animal.

🗂️ Fact file

Bangladesh lies in South Asia. It's bordered by the Bay of Bengal, an arm of the Indian Ocean, and by northeastern India to the west, north and east. Burma lies to the southeast.

The national emblem. The water lily, Bangladesh's national flower, appears in the middle of the emblem.

Capital: Dhaka
Official language: Bengali
Official name: People's Republic of Bangladesh
Currency: Basic unit: the taka
Area: 143,998 km²
Population: 2000 estimate: 134,417,000 people

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🌟 The land of rivers

Bangladesh has hundreds of rivers, the biggest being the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, which meet and flow into the Bay of Bengal, forming the biggest delta in the world.

🔍 The Sundarbans forest

On Bangladesh's coast is the Sundarbans, the biggest forest of mangroves, trees that live in salt water, and the striped Bengal tiger lives there.

💡 Rice and jute

People grow rice in flooded fields, and they grow jute, a plant used to make ropes and sacks.

🎯 Rainy seasons

Very heavy rain falls on Bangladesh in the season called the monsoon, and rivers sometimes overflow and flood the land.

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🧩 Test yourself

1 Which tiger lives in Bangladesh's forests?

2 What is the main food crop grown in Bangladesh?

3 Which picture shows “Bangladesh”?

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📷 Picture sources: Wikimedia Commons

Saiful Aopu & Nahid Sultan · CC BY-SA 3.0
DFID - UK Department for International Development · CC BY 2.0